Moor Porter | Cisco Brewers Inc.

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Pours a deep brwon with a little reddish hue with a huge fluffy light brown head to big of a head I think it took for ever to finally settle.Nice aromas going on some cocoa and earth dominate with molasses showing thru as well,nice porter flavors here big molasses and cocoa flavors hints of brown sugar finishing quite dry and earthy with soft minty hop notes that linger.Somehwat prickly overcarbonates on the mouth I think this beer may have been sitting on the shelf for awhile.Good flavors I think age was starting to work on this one but still a fine porter.

This beer was a very dark brown color with a small tan head. The head faded quickly but left a little lacing. It had an aroma of coffee and chocolate. The coffee smelled a little on the burned side. Tasted mostly of chocolate. Some coffee too, but I was expecting more after the stronger coffee aroma. It was a little on the thinner side, but still quite nice.

Great big bottle (a very good thing in this case) poured into a pint glass. The yeasts on Nantucket are very happy with this beer & yield a pillowy thick head that lasts and lasts & a high degree of carbonation. Can't see a thing through this deep brown brew, so the only way to the bottom is to quaff.

An aroma of roasted malts and toastiness leads to a yeasty, roasty (coffee, black malt) start, followed by a growing, almost oatmeal-like oiliness which combines with the other darker malt flavors (cocoa, coffee, burnt toast) and a hint of Granny Smith apple (that's what my notes say!) to give this brew a vast depth within its medium body. It thickens, rounds, and becomes a little sweeter as it warms, as a good porter should IMO. It finishes with a bitter chocolate, roasted, round flavor that makes you SO happy they bottle this in 750ml bottles as opposed to 12 oz. So quaffable.

Decent head, hold some and then leaves some uneven rings of lace. Big roasted malt flavour, soft yet dominant like a huge heavy pillow of roasted grain. Yeast makes its way in and drops a nutty flavour throughout. Hops are on the side line and add to the earthy flavours. Goes down very well.

Appearance: deep dark brown, with a 1” finely bubbled head. Smell: chocolate, roast malt nose, some fruit – faint licorice. Taste: Very creamy, actually dries out on the end, some licorice, a touch of cola, chocolate, faint espresso. Not as roasty and bitter as a stout, some sweetness but does dry out on the finish. Nice black coffee drying out on the end. Mouthfeel: medium carbonation, medium full to full body, not quite chewy, very easy to drink porter.

Smells of heavily roasted malts with hints of semi-sweet chocolate and tobacco. Also present are very slight amounts of char.

Tastes similar to how it smells, though smoother. Robust roasted malts up front are joined quickly by smooth semi-sweet chocolate flavors. Midway through, the tobacco and hints of smokiness come into play, carrying through to a solidly bitter finish. Mouthfeel is good, with decent carbonation.

Overall I really enjoyed this beer, though I’m partial to dry examples of the style and those that lean toward the roasted end of the spectrum. Well worth a shot.

Was looking for a nice porter the other night and had this recommended by my neighborhood friendly beer monger. Popped it open and poured into a Portsmouth Pint Glass.

A - Pours dark and thick into the glass. No real head despite an aggressive pour, but the carbonation "rebounded" to produce a thin head a few seconds after the pour.

S - Smell is heavy of burnt, spent coffee grounds. There's notes of smoke and vanilla in the nose as well. Smell is inviting and what I was looking for.

T - This was interesting. There's a fair bit of complexity in this one. There's a base of burnt toast, coffee grounds, and caramelized sugar. The middle brings out some vanilla, which is quickly tempered by a somewhat unpleasant tang in the finish. I'm not sure how to describe the aftertaste, but it's ... well, not my thing.

M / D - Good coating mouthfeel that doesn't stick around past it's welcome. I would have liked a bit more carbonation in this, but it's about right for the style. It's drinkable enough, I just wish I could get past that aftertaste.

This pours a jet black with a huge foamy head.There is a major amount of carbonation in this beer.The aroma is not overpowering,but you can make out some nice roasted malt aroma.The taste is dominated by roasted malt flavors.I can't really make out anything else,but the roasted flavor is very good.The m/f is heavy,but the beer has too much carbonation,like all their others,for my taste.This is a pretty good porter,flawed but good.

Pours a good-looking two-finger light tan head, creamy and fluffy. Lasts a long while before leaving some lace as it minimizes. Color is as black as a porter can get, totally opaque and just a hint of dark red highlights when held to light.

Aroma is a very forward thing of smoke, cocoa and mineral. Dry, earthy and to-the-point.

Smokiness and bitter burnt chocolate dominate on the tongue, with some flaked cocoa and nutty coffee roast coming in. I don't detect the licorice character noted on the label. Mineral stoniness to the flavor as well, right into the finish (what little finish there is -- the smoke flavor hangs around long after the rest of the finish fades). A ghost of tartness/sourness lingers way in the background, wanting to be like those ancient traditional porters, but not quite getting there. A minuscule hint of milk sweetness flashes by, but I wonder if that's just wishful thinking, because this could use a little sweetness or juiciness or something.

Pretty dry stuff, with good balance of carbonation and a fuller, milkier feel. Glides down easily with a decent degree of slickness. No stickiness.

Fairly one-dimensional, but certainly well made, delivering all the heartier aspects of the porter style. I could live without it, but would never turn it away. Worth a shot if you're a porter fan.

Having been warned of this brewery's quality control, I did not expect much. I received even less. Mediocre porter. Good aroma, lace, but sour and strong carbonation. My mates poured out. Nothing I can point my finger at, such as oxidization. Rudy provided, but his home brewed porter exceeded this is taste and drinkability.

It must have been a bad bottle. I have had Cisco before, usually on the Island, and NEVER experienced this. First, it was over carbonated. The minute I popped the cap, it started fizzing over. Forget pouring it, I had to wait ten minutes for it to settle down. The taste: Great tasting porter except there was a lingering plastic taste. A bad bottling line? Perhaps. I did notice when I left the glass out for two hours (having given up on it) the plastic taste subsided. It taste a hell of a lot better, robust, roasted, great hops. But I only dicovered this because I could not bring myself to dump the beer.

M - Medium to full bodied. I think the carbonation could be toned down a little here. Nothing to complain about thought. Dry, resinous aftertaste on the tongue. Nice.

D - A good beer. Nice to see a brewery from the home state making a name for themselves with so many quality releases. You can taste the inspiration of Cape Cod in this one. There's a nice Cape breeze and brininess to this beer. It's a dark beer you'd be bound to drink at a beach at a clambake. I appreciate that.

Aroma is well hidden it seems, but hints of cocoa and coffee come through. Really subtle on the nose.

Flavor is a little bit of everything you'd expect in a porter. A slight bitterness is offset by a chocolaty sweetness and a slight hint of burnt coffee. Not much of a roasted barley note so its hard to tell whether or not it was included.

Mouthfeel has a medium-light body with a rather smooth feel. Overall a drinkable porter but there are better options at this price point.

22oz bomber poured into a pint glass. White label, different than the one pictured above.

Poured jet black, quick tan foam. Opaque.

Smells roasted - coffee, dark chocolate. Taste is more of the same - a chewy blend of roasted malts with good bitter balance. High carbonation. Little like an iced coffee taste, but much better and more residual bittering.

Wow...what a head!!! A large creamy, bi-colored (light and dark tan) was present with a dark almost black color...real eye candy. Smell was nutty and oak-like, suggesting an oak barrel. Taste was full-bodied with nutty, oak-like characteristics and a distinctive, bitter aftertaste that was very nice. Mouthfeel was rounded, with decent body. Nicely drinkable for the 7.0 abv. A definite recommendation.